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Nghi Vo\'s debut novel, The Chosen and the Beautiful , reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice..
She just has to learn how.
In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man.
But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries.
She\'s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her.
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society--she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age.
Magician.
Socialite. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review Immigrant. -- The New York Times Vo has crafted a retelling that, in many ways, surpasses the original. --NPR A sumptuous, decadent read.
I was captivated from the first sentence. . . .
Scott Fitzgerald\'s jazz age classic.
Louis Post-Dispatch Den of Geek LGBTQ Reads Pittsburgh City Paper Bookstr Tatler HK A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR A vibrant and queer reinvention of F.
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